Militiamen belonging to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces are promoting on their social media pages, Shia clergy, militia an anti-terrorism units working hand in hand to offer assistance to the people of Ramadi.

The video is evidence of firstly, the uninvited presence of these forces in the city, and secondly, the effort to proliferate a ‘clean image' of these groups, that remain accused of human rights atrocities, and possibly war crimes.